Posted: Fri, Jul 31 5:07 PM ET (2107 GMT)
The space shuttle Endeavour successfully landed in Florida Friday morning, completing a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center at 10:48 am EDT (1448 GMT) on its first landing opportunity at the Florida site. Endeavour spent 16 days in space on the STS-127 mission, adding an experiment "porch" to the exterior of the Japanese lab module Kibo and performing five spacewalks to outfit that facility and carry out other work on the station. Endeavour returned with Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut who spent over four months on the station; Tim Kopra, who flew to the station on Endeavour, remained on the ISS after the shuttle departed.

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•  SPACE.com article
•  NASASpaceFlight.com article
•  CBS News/Spaceflight Now article
•  Orlando Sentinel article
•  NASA press release

Posted: Wed, Jul 29 7:17 AM ET (1117 GMT)
The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday afternoon after completing its work upgrading the outpost. Endeavour undocked from the station at 1:26 pm EDT (1726 GMT) and flew around it before departing the vicinity of the ISS. The STS-127 crew will perform final inspections of the shuttle's tiles and panels in advance of a planned landing at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday morning. During its time at the station the shuttle crew installed an external experiment platform on the Japanese lab module Kibo and performed five spacewalks to outfit the platform and perform additional work on the station.

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•  SPACE.com article
•  CBS News/Spaceflight Now article
•  AP article
•  Florida Today article
•  NASA ISS STS-127 status report #27

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